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We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not

because they are easy but because they are hard in godspeed John Glenn Roger zero

and I feel fine okay I'm out how does it feel for the United States to be the new record holder?

At last, huh?

In that baby lights, there's no doubt about it.

Lift-off. We have a lift-off. 32 minutes past the hour.

Lift-off on Apollo 11.

flipping Tanguality base here.

The Eagle has landed.

That's one small step for man.

One giant leap for manned.

Hello and welcome.

This is Michael Annas, and you're listening to episode number 404 of the Space Rocket History podcast.

And now, Skylab, the launch of Skylab 1.

In the summer of 1972, as launch preparations were underway for Apollo 17, the final mission to the moon,

the hardware for the Skylab program began to arrive at Cape Kennedy.

The first Skylab flight components to arrive were the command module and service module

that would take the first visitors to Skylab.

They were called the Skylab 2 crew because the launch of the workshop was called Skylab 1.

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